Swedish police say, however, that they already know of the man's existence and have excluded him from their investigations.

The report, published on Monday in the German weekly news magazine Focus, is based on previously unreleased testimony with former Yugoslav security service officer Vinko Sindicic, now 67.

In a 2008 interrogation by German prosecutors, Sindicic said that Belgrade sent a Hamburg-based assassin to Stockholm to kill Palme.

Palme, who was gunned down the evening of February 28th, 1986 on Sveavägen in central Stockholm, had reportedly been shadowed round the clock by Yugslav security agents.

The murder weapon, a Smith and Wesson .357 Magnum, has never been found. According to Focus, the gun was smuggled to Sweden on a boat from the United States.

The magasine also reports that Palme’s killer, now 65, lives in Zagreb, Croatia and works for a private security firm.

The head of the Swedish police taskforce charged with investigating Palme’s still-unsolved killing, Stig Edqvist, told the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper that his team has been aware of the information for some time.

“This came to our attention already in 1988 and since then we’ve followed it up quite thoroughly and been in contact on several occasions with the person who provided the information,” Edqvist told the newspaper.

While his team decided to stop pursuing the lead several years ago, he said that if the Focus report contained new information “which makes us rethink things, obviously we will.”

“Nothing is set in stone,” he told SvD.

Previous testimony from Sindicic helped German authorities solve a case involving a the 1983 killing of a Yugoslav dissident, according to Focus.

If this person was an assasin he should be made to face justice and not be protected by those former communists in Zagreb. His likes were used often to assisnate people in the Croatian diaspora for being anti communist. He should be made to answer questions on Olaf Palme and any Croatians that may of fallen victim to him and his ilk.

This article is about the possibility that the former Yugoslav government ordered the hit on Palme. I can't find any articles on why the former Yugoslav government was motivated to do this. The Yugoslav mob is a more recent problem as I understand it and didn't exist back then. Can anyone point me to articles ?

Great to see that there are still blue-eyed liberals pushing the Christer Pettersson myth - the man denied his involvment on his death bed to his friend and journalist, Gerd Fylking, strange behaviour for a man who according to a corrupt and incompetent police force along with their hooray henry cheer leaders; not only killed Swedens last socialist Prime Minister but also triggered the dramatic political, economic, and social transformation of Sweden.

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